http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Raghavulu-begins-fast-to-meet-dalit-demands/articleshow/7731294.cms
Raghavulu begins fast to meet dalit demands
TNN | Mar 18, 2011, 12.10am IST
HYDERABAD: CPM state secretary B V Raghavulu and state committee
members G Nagaiah and S Veeraiah launched an indefinite fast on
Thursday asking the government to implement 50 demands concerning
dalits, tribals and farmers.
Talking to the media near Indira Park after beginning the fast,
Raghavulu said successive governments had ignored these sections and
in the name of industrialisation were causing immense harm to them.
He said the main demands of the CPM were introduction of a special
scheme for development of dalit and tribal areas, a new law for
implementation of the sub-plan for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes, lifting of cases booked against tribals by forest department,
payment of compensation to those whose lands have been taken by the
government for construction of Polavaram project, appointment of
members and chairman for SC/ST commission, implementation of Forest
Rights Act, identity cards for tenant farmers and regulation of the
activities of micro-finance companies and new ration cards to all the
eligible people.
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